[OSM-talk] Units convention (Was: Mapping canals)

[Martin Trautmann]

> There is really no point using a thousands separator in figures which are supposed to be machine-readable. 


The storage format should be machine-readable. That's why ft and mph would be converted to metric numbers.

User's output should be best for reading - and input could be flexible e.g. for copy/paste to accept spaces within input fields, but delete them for storage.
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